This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McConnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3410 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho November 11, 1893 THANKSGIVING. Governor McConnell Issues the Customary Proclamation. Governor McConnell has issued the following proclamation: THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. The naming by the chief executive of the nation, and the governors of the several states of a day for thanksgiving and prayer, has become one of the honored and sacred customs of our country. In compliance with which, and in harmony with the recommendation of the president, I hereby proclaim Thursday, November 30th, a legal holiday, and recommend that it be devoted to thanksgiving and such other exercises as our people deem appropriate to the occasion. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the great seal of state. Done at the city of Boise, capital of Idaho, this 9th day of November, 1893. (Seal.) W. J. McConnell,